Maurice Sendak

A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.

With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.

Chicken soup with rice is valuable all throughout the year, no matter what the month.

An alphabet book of alligators doing dishes, juggling jelly beans, throwing tantrums and wearing wigs, all from A to Z. (Publisher)

Mr. Rabbit was trying to help a little girl decide what would be the perfect birthday gift for her mother. The little girl said her mother liked red, yellow, green and blue but when Mr. Rabbit suggested such things as a red roof, a yellow taxicab, a green emerald and a blue lake the little girl said these things would not do. Mr. Rabbit and the little girl finally found the perfect gift.

When Presto and Zesto wander into the alternate universe of Limboland, they must find their way home.

James and John are best friends-or at least they used to be. They shared pretzels, umbrellas, and even chicken pox. Now James always wants to be boss, and John doesn't want to be friends anymore. But when he goes to James' house to tell him so, something unexpected happens.

Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...